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The Illinois Service is funded primarily by the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT) and falls under the broader Amtrak Midwest brand. Chicago is a terminus for all three Illinois Service routes, which all have multiple daily round trips: Chicago–Quincy: two round trips daily, the Illinois Zephyr and the Carl Sandburg [1]
Area served City of license VC RF Callsign Network Notes Carbondale/~Paducah KY: Harrisburg: 3 34 WSIL-TV: ABC: Heroes & Icons on 3.2, True Crime Network on 3.3, Court TV on 3.4, Ion on 3.5
ME — Kenwood, Chicago: 2 51st–53rd Street (Hyde Park) ME — Hyde Park, Chicago: 2 55th–56th–57th Street: ME: NICTD: South Shore Line: Hyde Park, Chicago: 2 59th Street/University of Chicago: ME — Hyde Park, Chicago: 2 63rd Street: ME: NICTD: South Shore Line: Woodlawn, Chicago: 2 75th Street (Grand Crossing) ME — Greater Grand ...
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One inbound train and one outbound train run express between Western Avenue and Wheeling. Like the Heritage Corridor and SouthWest Service, the North Central Service is fully ADA-accessible. No tickets are sold at any North Central Service stations outside Chicago. Passengers must purchase tickets either on the train or with Ventra.
A second train, the Saluki, was added on October 30, 2006, in response to increased demand on the Illini and other Illinois Service trains in the 2005–2006 fiscal year. [15] The Saluki was named for the mascot of Southern Illinois University , which is located in the train's southern terminus of Carbondale. [ 16 ]
In July 2019, a new transportation bill was passed by the Illinois state legislature, supported by Governor J.B. Pritzker, with $225 million was appropriated to begin this service. [8] In its 2020–2025 service plan, Amtrak forecast that the Chicago–Moline route will begin in fiscal year 2024 and attract 165,600 riders that year.
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